Sometimes, I just think about how Shang Qinghua made Mobei Jun after his ideal man. He really just made a big stupid idiot demon lord with communication and anger issues and went, yep, perfect.
Then, he acted surprised when he was all of that and still had the audacity to not understand his idiot King when he was courted.
These two are absolute idiots and I love them so much. I'm definitely completely normal about them.
But seriously, what the fuck.
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I. Hurt.
And I was hurting anyway, I'm pretty down this morning, but this hurt came from an outside source, and affected me in a way I'd honestly not have expected.
See, we bought Nimona last week. After seeing the movie, my kids wanted to read it. And I ended up reading ahead, and I just finished it.
Bonus content at the end, it said, and I was like, oh, an epilogue to the epilogue maybe? That'd be nice. I don't love bittersweet endings, I'd rather...
...no, it's not the conclusion.
It's CHRISTMAS.
In a book that'd had no religion that I noticed up to that point, BOTH bonus extras...were Christmas.
Ya know, usually it doesn't bother me. Usually I just suck it up. I think it helps that I was raised around mostly Jews and people who, if Christian, it didn't matter much to them. I'm from the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the descendent of Lower East Side immigrants, and while the world outside was brutal - my grandfather was a World War 2 veteran and among the soldiers who liberated Dachau, I can't remember a time when I didn't know that most people would look the other way if people like me were slaughtered wholesale - my bubble was safe, we were accepted, we were insiders.
I honestly can't think of another time I've interacted with a piece of media and felt so immediately, instantly knocked across the face by OUTSIDER as I just did when I excitedly turned the page to see what these fun extra bonuses were...and it was fucking Christmas.
I didn't even read them.
I'm honestly. So disappointed.
I don't have a thick armor for this kind of hurt. I'm Jewish, and as an adult living outside my old UWS bubble, that's often meant I've felt like an outlier, but I've hardly ever had this feeling where I was welcome to something only to be suddenly, violently shoved out the door.
And I've heard nothing, n.o.t.h.i.n.g. but praise for this book. And on another day, it might not have bothered me. I've never really felt like I had to fight to be seen, especially since I'm tremendously secular. I mean, I've celebrated Christmas my entire life, for starters.
But why. Why was this fantasy setting suddenly Christian? Why was this the touted extra content? Why is THIS special, when the areligious world established to that point was apparently not special enough?
I can't say yet if this ruined the story for me. It's far too soon. But I'm *intensely*, viscerally let down, and...I hurt.
Christians...maybe stop doing this shit.
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I’m sorry but I just watched a promo for the mandalorian with this bit stuck in there
and like….seems weird to talk about Andor in the middle of that but I’m fine with it
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I heard Fire Punch was even more insane than Chainsaw Man, but I didn't expect cannibalism, incest, slavery, and piss drinking in chapter 1.
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Hey uh what the FUCK was that <- just read A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
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you’re telling me spn (derogatory) is getting a reboot after 15 seasons of toxic masculinity and homophobic bullshit but my beloved shadow and bone is cancelled after 2 seasons because netflix is angry at people for wanting,,, [checks notes] a lunch break????
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This stream felt like a fucking fever dream what the fuck did I just watch why is Wilbur American this is a nightmare
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bald fraud tried to kill kostas 😤 embarrassing behaviour 😤
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what the FUCK is up with Ashley. Was that ever explained?? What does Johnny MEAN that he’s never been to Texas??? WHAT IS GOING ON
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Where the fuck is Dracula and what the fuck is he doing. Why was Renfield going apeshit at noon???? What is up with that.
Lucy is fine? Van Helsing visited... did he do a thing? Or like, what? Renfield loses his shit at noon the day after Van Helsing's visit, so it doesn't *seem* like it's that?
I've actually read Dracula before and this new chronological thing is really cool, because now I'm sitting here trying to assemble a timeline of happenings and like... where the hell is Dracula. Where is he. What is he up to??????
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Hey uh, why the fuck are the half-life and alyx vance tags suddenly full of AI art of white women in swimsuits?
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